Education: Anatomy of Tardiness

How may parents speed up their
lagging children, prevent their being tardy at school? Last week Miss
Nellie W. Birdsong, psychologist of Maryland State Normal School, told
a Child Study Association meeting: "Children too frequently feel
themselves the centre of attention when repeated calls are made for
them to get up in the morning, to hurry over their dressing and to eat
their meals. Flattered, they try to keep the centre of the stage by
actions that seem to them to elicit this specific attention. A little
seeming indifference on the part...